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Society for Science & the Public
Society for science is a champion for science, dedicated to expanding scientific literacy, effective stem education and scientific research.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $202,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,124,534 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,922,534 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS | $20,000 |
| BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE | $18,000 |
| WILLIAM A SHINE GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $14,000 |
| THE HARKER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SCIENCE FAIR DIRECTORS INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PAUL D SCHREIBER HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BERGEN COUNTY ACADEMIES | $10,000 |
| HERRICKS HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| PLANO WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| SYOSSET HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $6,000 |
| PLAINVIEW-OLD BETHPAGE JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
35 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +531%- THTHE HARKER SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +38%
- CCCanyon Crest Academy Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2023 · $20k
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +64%- SHSCARSDALE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Canyon Crest Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE SCIENCE FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Society for Science & the Public funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.